Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Grace Elisabeth Lavery

Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 November 2021
Pages
240
ISBN
9780691183626

Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Grace Elisabeth Lavery

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics

From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encou

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